Covid on Serie A Positive 50 players, Juve-Napoli at risk

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A list that gets longer with every round of tampons and that gives the championship shivers. There are over 50 members – footballers or staff members – in isolation because they are in contact with Covid and the number sets a small record. Serie A will restart on Thursday, on the day of the Befana, with the stadiums at 50 percent capacity from 75 in the pre-Christmas period. And Serie A will start again after the stop with the eyes on the territorial health authorities of the country: in fact, the protocol of the FIGC has been overcome for some time, it is the ASL that decide the fate of the matches and will do so also, and above all, for the turn on the agenda for the Epiphany if the contagions present foreshadow the risk of an outbreak.

It seems like a twist of fate, or perhaps the asymmetrical calendar, but the “mother of all postponements” returns to fuel the worst nightmares. The Juve-Napoli match on Thursday evening is at risk due to Covid, like the entire first day of Serie A, and the memory tape returns to the long soap opera of last season. Juventus is at risk of an outbreak, given that Giorgio Chiellini tested positive yesterday. On New Year’s Eve Arthur and Pinsoglio had already been stopped, while yesterday Israel also tested positive, having been called up by Allegri in the first team. Napoli yesterday instead lost Malcuit and Petagna, in quarantine because they came into contact with positive people, while there are already three players who fell ill during the break (Lozano, Elmas and Osimhen).

The championship does not stop, not for its institutions: doing so would mean upsetting a calendar where there is no longer a free window except for those teams that do not tie their destiny to the European cups such as Udinese and Salernitana, a duel not played and that , jurisprudence in hand, will be disputed at the earliest possible opportunity. The B and the Lega Pro have chosen a stop, but B and Lega Pro have room for maneuver unknown to A: so, as mentioned, it can only be an intervention by the ASL to change the script.

Today, in the meantime, the League Council will decide when to play the final of the Italian Super Cup between Inter-Juve: at the moment, the big match is scheduled for 12 January, but both Nerazzurri and Bianconeri have asked for a postponement. –

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